The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

Man is the cruelest animal.